Essential guide to writing part 8
Essential guide to writing part 8
... illiterate want to learn how to read. Then they wanteducation, and then more education, and then they want their sonsand daughters to become doctors and lawyers. It is frightening to see so many ... accustomed to the law and order of the presentday to understand the dangers which threatened the Jacobean trav-eller. The seas swarmed with pirates; so that few merchantmendared to put to sea ... subject in its totality. Organ-izing around 1, 2, and 3 emphasizes particular likenesses ordifferences. It all depends on what you want to do. In thefollowing case the writer elected to organize...
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Essential guide to writing part 6
... you, then, to create an appropriate tone and to avoid pomposity, say, or will put readers off. Here are a few examples of how skillful writers make tone work for them. Tone Toward Subject Toward ... Chartists had pushed through a fac- tory law restricting working time for women and juveniles to eleven hours, and from May 1, 184 8 to ten hours. This was not at all to the liking of the manufacturers, ... conversation are to inform, or to be informed, to please or to persuade, wish well meaning sensible men would not lessen their power of doing good by a positive assuming manner that seldom fails to disgust,...
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Essential guide to writing part 26
... some manner, to live, and look tolerably well, notwithstanding their despair and the continued absence of their lover; and some have even been known to recover so far as to be inclined to take another ... www.tailieuduhoc.org STOPS following sentence is an example (the Duke of Wellington is commenting with pleasant cynicism upon the capacity of young ladies to endure the absence of lovers gone to war): They ... requires a stronger stop to signal the distinction between one unit in the series and another. Look at this sen- tence about the rise of the Ku in the 1920s: There were other factors too: the deadly...
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Essential guide to writing part 7
... more reluctant to admit it.JohnCharles R. Forbes went to jail. Albert B. Fall went to jail. AlienProperty Custodian Thomas W. Miller went to jail.Samuel Hopkins AdamsSuch plants to operate successfully ... sentence to another. Coherence belongs to the substructure of the par-agraph, to relationships of thought, feeling, and perception.Both necessary if a paragraph is to be truly unified.Coherence To ... way of creating flow, then, is to announce your planand explicitly fit each unit into that plan. It is not a methodconfined to single paragraphs. You can use it to organize aportion of a long...
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Essential guide to writing part 9
... clear to the reader. If you are defining a word, un-derline it (equivalent to italic type). In the following para-graph, for instance, the writer wishes to make clear how theword history is ... garage and driveway.He will contribute his share to the 142 million tons of smoke andfumes, seven million junked cars, 20 million tons of paper, 48 bil-lion cans, and 26 billion bottles the overburdened ... never total and exact, what is true of onecannot necessarily be applied to the other.For example, some political thinkers have used the "simi-larity" of a state to a ship to justify...
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Essential guide to writing part 10
... the process, from the seed to the crop, stopsat the intermediate mechanical stage of the money. He does notgrow things to feed men; not even to feed one man; not even to feed himself. The miser ... variousoccasions used sketches drawn by service station men, or byfriends, to show the best automobile route from one town to another.The distinction usually made between "maps" and "charts" ... which, although not essential to the is interesting and enlightening.In working out a genus-species definition, then, the essen-tial questions to ask yourself are these: To what class does it...
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Essential guide to writing part 27
... that is still one hell a pile of pulp. Pauline To revert for a moment to the story told in the first person, it is plainthat in that case the narrator has no such liberty. . . .Percy Comma with ... is less formal: short, says the historian Friedrich the crusades were pro-moted with all the devices of the stories,over-simplification, lies, inflammatory speeches. Morris Bishop The Dash ... construction, which is colloquial in tone. Here, then,is the one function which belongs primarily to the dash:The opening is one of Pushkin's famousplunges the reader into the heart of the matter.Rosemary...
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Essential guide to writing part 11
... be able to handle the short sentence to stress particular ideas and, whenthe occasion warrants, to compose brief passages in a segre-gating style. On the whole, however, the style is too limitedfor ... exactly what you want to say.Segregating sentences are especially useful in descriptiveand narrative writing. They analyze a complicated perceptionor action into its parts and arrange these ... suited to Nichols's purpose. He wants to stress that writing often work. Such "fit"between sentence style and purpose is important to good writing. The same general point may be put...
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Essential guide to writing part 12
... word"campaign":The Department of Justice began a vigorous campaign to break upthe corporate empires, to restore the free and open market, and to plant the feet of the industry firmly on the road to competition.Thurman ... likely to seem too elaborate to modern readers, a less "natural" way of writing than thesegregating style or the freight-train or cumulative sentences.However, we ought not to equate ... purely poetical. ) G. K. ChestertonBut called by whatever name, it is a most fruitful region; kind to the native, interesting to the visitor. ) Thomas Carlyle stood like one thunderstruck, or...
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Essential guide to writing part 13
... length hearkened to the terms of peace, which was concludedwith great advantage to the empire and to Holland, but none at all to us, and clogged soon after with the famous treaty of partition.Allowed ... those places which interested me, from a defect of eyeor of hand was totally ineffectual. Sir Walter ScottThe life story to be told of any creative worker is therefore by itsvery nature, by its ... resumed and be able to put the pieces together. Usedsparingly, the long convoluted sentence has the virtue of theunusual: it draws attention to itself and, more important, to what it says, and...
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